[TOOLY, Thomas] Homer in a Nut-Shell; or, The Iliad of Homer in Immortal Doggrel by Nickydemus Ninnyhammer, London: for W. Sparkes, 1715, 8°, 12°, [12] + 68pp., folding engraved frontispiece by VanderGucht (C6 torn at head) [Foxon T420, noting that the presence of the frontispiece is unusual: "The Nichol Smith copy (now at the National Library of Australia, Canberra), has a folding frontispiece ... not seen elsewhere." The authorship of John Gay has also been suggested for this work] [bound with:] H. DE PICOU. L'Odyssée d'Homere; ou, Les Avantures d'Ulysse, en vers burlesques [containing the first and second books], Leiden: Jean Sambix, 1653, 24°, 68pp. (upper margins shaved, some lower margins short, staining, nibbling of corners), 2 works in one volume, later 19th-century half calf gilt-stamped with corn sheaf crest, flat spine lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed, slightly grubby), armorial bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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[TOOLY, Thomas] Homer in a Nut-Shell; or, The Iliad of Homer in Immortal Doggrel by Nickydemus Ninnyhammer, London: for W. Sparkes, 1715, 8°, 12°, [12] + 68pp., folding engraved frontispiece by VanderGucht (C6 torn at head) [Foxon T420, noting that the presence of the frontispiece is unusual: "The Nichol Smith copy (now at the National Library of Australia, Canberra), has a folding frontispiece ... not seen elsewhere." The authorship of John Gay has also been suggested for this work] [bound with:] H. DE PICOU. L'Odyssée d'Homere; ou, Les Avantures d'Ulysse, en vers burlesques [containing the first and second books], Leiden: Jean Sambix, 1653, 24°, 68pp. (upper margins shaved, some lower margins short, staining, nibbling of corners), 2 works in one volume, later 19th-century half calf gilt-stamped with corn sheaf crest, flat spine lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed, slightly grubby), armorial bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe.

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